Saturday, February 9, 2013

My Kitchen - The Prequel.

Ok, here I go again. I uploaded my "step by
step" yesterday in various Facebook groups and received a lot of questions
about whether I use a ruler or how I fix the perspective.

So here is another "step by step" since I see
perspective does not come so easy if you are not trained. I am liking this J

Yes, I use ruler and pencil and "construction
lines". I searched carefully into the USK Manifesto and found no mention
against it. No sins commited, so I can use a ruler and still be in a state of
grace!.

I am sorry… I know there is people that despise rulers,
abhor of pencil pre-work and like to rough it. Well, maybe I am too old, but if I can have a choice I
prefer sleeping in a bed, since the floor feels harder for me lately.

So, here is what I do to get into the space where I am
going to place my stuff. I need to place some lines to be safe. To UNDERSTAND
the space I need to slip some precise lines. The rest comes easy:

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All of this is to be done with a ruler.

1) I try to find an horizon line (HL - Red). It is an
horizontal line that is usually at eyesight height. (The sea horizon is always
there). And then I find a vanishing point (VPoint), a dot into the HL where all
the lines tend to go to.

Then I need to look around for some strong lines (BLUE)
that go into that VP. Here I see some lines in the kitchen top and in the
tiling that I can use. I draw them with the ruler.

2) There is another set of lines (3) in the other
direction, perpendicular to the blue lines. Those vanish into a VPoint thats
off the drawing, so I kind of have to figure them up. Here they are, two green
lines .

3) Once the main blue and green lines are placed, I divide
the space between them proportionally, so I can use all these lines as guide
for the freehand drawing that comes after all this. I divide the narrow end in
-say- four spaces, and the same at the wider end. And them I draw some more
lines (three thinner green lines here) that I will use as guides and erase
after ink work.

4) I do the same with the blue lines, those that go to the
Vpoint, here I make two sets of spaces I the narrow end and two sets in the
wider, and, again, I place six thinner lines, three and three.

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Now I can kick the ruler away but I do have a group of
lines I can trust, and into which I can move without much danger. All the rest
of the drawing can be made by guesswork, and that brings softness to the whole
thing. But this "initial spatial structure" helped me undestand how
the space where I am drawing works. If I get lost, it will not be by much.